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Cholent Competition

On Shabbos, as the weather is starting to turn on the East Coast, and Cholent season is starting, a bunch of us decided to have a shabbos cholent competition. Just wondering if anyone has done this, and if so, how did you do it? How did you do a scoring system on shabbos?

Also, anyone got some ideas to make an award winning cholent? I am trying to decide if I want to make mine red wine based, or bourbon.

You have to have at least 3 judges and score the cholents on 2-3 categories: character of flavor and ability to achieve the stated theme (ie traditional Polish, nouveau, Hungarian, etc.) are two that come to mind. By keeping the numbers a simple 1-2-3 rating system, you should be able to do the math on shabbos sans paper/pencil.

among the ingrrediants I use are, red dry wine, chopped up fresh garlic (granualed garlic will interact with the beans and cause a lot of gastric distress), praprika, Carmel Beef gravy, cayene pepper sauce, barley, beans, potatoes and meat. and last but not least some good marrow bones

Chipotle in adobo sauce. Chipotles are very hot for the average consumer, but the sauce is wonderfully smoky and adds a tremendous flavor to cholent, even if you don't put in any of the chipotles themselves.

I am just trying to get a sense if people have done this before. I am envision this being a whole community thing. With splitting people into divisions and then having winning divisions compete against each other. A fun way for a community to come together and have fun.

I am open to any and all suggestions. (As for the chipote, I would shy away from it cause unless you like spice you will be turned off in a big way.)

San Marcos has chipotle in adobe sauce under the supervision of the STAR K. And like any other food competitions, cholent should be judged on Taste, texture, creativity and presentation....well the first three at least i've never see a cholent that could make it onto the cover of bon apetite.